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Friday, January 13, 2012

The Dewey Decimal Challenge 2012

Because of my great love for nonfiction, and my hope to read more, I'm joining this year's Dewey Decimal Challenge. I enjoyed last year's and read four books for it.

Here are the details:

The Challenge: Read any non-fiction book(s), adult or young adult. That's it. You can choose anything. Poetry? Yes. Memoirs? Yes. History? Yes. Travel? Yes. You get the idea? Absolutely anything that is classified as non-fiction counts for this challenge.

I always like levels in my challenges, so here are mine:

Dilettante--Read 1-5 non-fiction books

Explorer--Read 6-10

Seeker--Read 11-15

Master--Read 16-20

This challenge will last from January 1 to December 31, 2012. You can sign up anytime throughout the year.

I am not limiting the challenge to bloggers. You can also link to a review you wrote on another site, such as GoodReads or LibraryThing.

I am going to be bold and sign up for the Seeker level. You wouldn't believe how many nonfiction books I own. As much as I enjoy good fiction stories, what I really love are true stories, and there are enough on my shelves to last for many years!

13 comments:

Hey Nan!You know I love non-fiction!I just wrote about Louie Zamperini on my blog. Oh, and guess what, I was able to put a header photo on my blog! You'd never believe it, but I can't remember how I did it! Am I funny or what! (I am serious you know, I can't remember, but I still have to laugh at myself!)

I have never participated in any reading challenge, but I like knowing about them through your blog.Usually, I read on average one non-fiction book to maybe two fiction books, sometimes more, sometimes less. At the moment, after the non-fiction one about Russia, I am reading a fiction one again.

I directed Tom to that entry, Kay. He really enjoyed it. He has the book but hasn't read it yet.I think that happens a lot with internet stuff. Sometimes we hit upon something but have no idea how it happened.

Cath, I know what you mean! I just knew I wanted to read more of my beloved nonfiction and thought this would be a fun way to do it.

Staci, when I volunteered at the library, that's the work I did, and I would come home with piles of books!

Margot, I don't think I'm going to include my food books. I think those will be just for your challenge. :<)

Well, I'm off to a good start. It's only Jan. 14th and i've already read two nonfiction books, plus parts of several fiction ones.

I probably won't sign up for the challenge though. I have an aversion to people not believing I've actually read all those books which goes back to the "Read Ten Books Over the Summer" certificate I earned when I was 12 -- the librarian refused to believe I'd read that many books in a couple of weeks, and put me through the 3rd degree before she'd let me have a certificate.

The humiliation was right up there with the one-time boyfriend who edited my letter for spelling, grammar, and syntax before returning it to me!

Canadian Chickadee, it isn't pressure for me, believe me! I don't 'challenge' myself - I read what I want. Just thought it would be fun to do this, as I did last year.Those two events you noted are awful!

This is a great challenge, and one I've been doing for several years on LibraryThing. My challenge is to read at least one from every Dewey Classification up to but NOT including the 10ths. For example, 100, 101, 102, etc so there are 902 books in all (there are currently 90+ categories not assigned). I haven't updated my list lately, but by mid 2011, I'd managed to complete 92 - about 10%. You've inspired me to go back over reading I did last year to update my list.

My problem is that I keep reading the same numbers because those are the ones I'm most interested in. I'm not going to join your challenge per se, but I'm going to be keeping track of what people are reading here and chiming in as the year goes along. Good luck to all of you.